Articles Tagged with ''Australia''

No one told Jackson Clements Burrows Architects they weren’t supposed to play with stacking blocks on a tennis court—and the Australian firm’s clients are glad. 

Project Specs Kew House Melbourne, Australia Jackson Clements Burrows Architects << Return to article the People Architect Jackson Clements Burrows Pty Ltd Architects Principal architects  Tim Jackson, Jon Clements, Graham Burrows Project architect Andrew Bos Project team Tim Jackson, Jon Clements, Graham Burrows, Andrew Bos, Tim Leslie Contractor Murray Dance (Dance Brothers Builders) Structural engineer Andrew Beattie (Adams Consulting Engineers) Roofing contractor Chris Sinn (Specialised Roofing Services) Landscape Jim Fogarty (Jim Fogarty Landscape Design)   the Products External materials Alternating Colorbond and Rheinzink flat-sheet panels, messmate cladding, Kidco anodized aluminium windows and doors, frameless glass balustrades, grey ironbark decking, synthetic

It was just about five years ago that I sat down with my colleague Alanna Stang to begin work on a survey of ecoconscious residential design, ultimately published as The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2005). The book’s thesis was straightforward: The green-design and high-design wings of the architecture profession, which had looked at one another for so long across a chasm of mutual disdain, were beginning to find common ground. Photo © Earl Carter Half of Australian houses sit within 8 miles of a beach. The Glenburn House reverses the house/water relationship, looking like

Project Specs: Glenburn House by Sean Godsell Architects

Outsiders say that architects spend too much energy giving each other prizes, but when Glenn Murcutt won the Pritzker Architecture Prize this year, you could almost hear the cheers.